A Kalispell man who had escaped from Mineral County Jail last weekend was arrested early Friday morning in Kalispell.

Zachary James Bergman, 27, was taken into custody by officers with the Flathead Sheriff’s Office and Kalispell Police Department in the parking lot of Super 1 Foods. He is being held on a $100,000 arrest warrant for multiple out-of-county felony charges, Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said.

“I think there will be some new charges,” Curry said of the incident.

Authorities found an abandoned vehicle on Wednesday in the Leisure Island area that they believed Bergman had stolen in another county. Officers then worked to take him into custody. Curry said that his department worked to make sure Bergman did not have a chance to run from officers, because he has a long history of doing so.

In 2008 Bergman pleaded guilty to one felony count of criminal endangerment and one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence as part of a plea agreement in which charges of felony burglary, two counts of felony theft, two counts of felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor charges of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia, attempting to elude a police officer and reckless driving were all dropped.

During a probationary sentence for that crime Bergman left the state without permission and committed several felony burglaries in Oregon, for which he was sent to prison.

When he was released from that prison sentence he returned to Montana and committed a felony theft in Flathead County on Nov. 14, 2011. That day he led authorities on a high-speed chase from Kalispell to Polson.

Less than two weeks later two elementary schools in Missoula had to be placed on lock down after Bergman ran from authorities on foot. He was found hiding in a shed near one of the schools.

At that time, Kalispell Probation and Parole Officer Scott Brotnov was interviewed by the Daily Inter Lake about Bergman’s case and Brotnov gave a slightly prophetic prediction about Bergman.

“He’ll stay incarcerated unless he escapes from an institution,” he said. “The likelihood is we’ll go through a disciplinary process, then we make a decision on incarceration placement. There’s a fairly good chance — because he has a number of new felonies pending — that his placement will be in the Montana State Prison, then he’ll be brought back for the new crimes.”

Bergman was eventually released from custody after that incident and again committed a felony. Bergman was convicted of felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs in October 2015. Flathead District Judge David Ortley gave Bergman a five-year suspended sentence in that case.

Curry said it is unclear which county’s justice system will get the first attempt at prosecuting or sanctioning Bergman because of his long, convoluted legal history.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.